Interim General Counsel

Overview

This role is an Interim General Counsel (Maternity Coverage) position providing timely, high-quality, and commercially minded legal support to business partners. Reporting to the Chief Executive Officer, you will serve as part of the organization’s Executive Team and act as a strategic partner by advising on legal issues, ensuring legal compliance, and limiting risk exposure.

The position covers a broad range of legal areas, including corporate affairs, commercial transactions, advertising/marketing clearance, data privacy, intellectual property, and other matters.

Responsibilities

• Lead Legal Team: Manage, mentor, and develop a team of legal professionals; set priorities; allocate workload across business partner functions; manage outside counsel relationships and budgets.
• Corporate: Provide advice on transactional and corporate governance matters.
• Contracts: Support a wide variety of commercial contracts, including drafting, reviewing, and negotiating service and vendor agreements, licensing agreements, manufacturing and supplier agreements, leases, and employment and consulting agreements.
• Marketing, Brand & Commercial Strategy: Advise on owned and paid media, influencer and brand ambassador agreements, sponsorships, experiential marketing and events, creative content, and sweepstakes and promotions; help shape broader commercial strategy for consumer products.
• Consumer Protection & Ecommerce Laws: Counsel Direct to Consumer teams on e-commerce and online sales practices, including website terms of service and privacy policy, disclosures, and checkout flows. Advise on subscription, auto-renewal, and negative-option programs to ensure compliance with applicable federal and state requirements governing disclosures, consent, and cancellation.
• Data Privacy: Advise cross-functional teams on compliance with data use and protection laws, including state/federal consumer protection and privacy laws, GDPR, and other global privacy laws.
• Other duties as assigned or necessary.

Requirements

• Juris Doctor (JD) degree with license to practice in at least one state bar; must be in good standing.
• At least 10+ years of generalist legal experience, including prior experience working in-house.
• Deep experience drafting and negotiating a broad range of commercial contracts.
• Regulatory depth: strong working knowledge of data use and protection laws (including state/federal consumer protection and privacy laws, CCPA, GDPR and other global privacy laws), consumer protection frameworks, retail and e-commerce law, and marketing/advertising compliance.
• Communication: exceptional written and oral communication and negotiation skills; ability to distill complex legal issues for both legal and non-legal audiences.
• Ability to handle a high-degree of ambiguity, prioritize, multi-task, manage multiple cross-functional projects to completion with little direction, and quickly shift from one task or situation to another.
• Ability to work under pressure while maintaining a sense of humor.

Preferred Qualifications

• Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) experience and/or ecommerce experience.
• Understanding of best practices in managing intellectual property interests in transactional matters.

Compensation & Benefits

Compensation and benefits are not specified in the provided description.

Location

• Remote

Position Type

• Temporary, part-time role covering a permanent staff member’s maternity leave.
• Employment expected to last four months, beginning on or approximately October 1, 2026.
• Duration may be extended or shortened at the organization’s discretion.
• Overlap will be provided for training and onboarding.

Application Process

• Applications must be submitted via the organization’s Applicant Tracking System.
• After submission, the recruiting team reviews applications and reaches out if qualifications match needs.
• Selected candidates will be invited to an initial phone screening interview with a recruiter before meeting with various members of the team.
• Candidates will be notified if they are not selected.
• The position will remain open until filled.

Equal Opportunity & Accommodation

• Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to age, race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identification, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.
• Reasonable accommodation is available for qualified applicants with disabilities to participate in the selection process.
• The organization will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring (Ban the Box) Ordinance.